polychord

I love Polychord. Love it. I have less than no no use for &quot;musical toy&quot; apps, but this one is deceptively clever, and deceptively useful. IF you bother to figure it out. I love it. OK?<br/>— Polychord can be used to create decent accompaniments and loose improvisations by anyone, at any level, who might be willing to think a bit.<br/>— And if you love sound, harmonic texture and melody in a more &quot;freeform&quot; way, it can be a lot of fun without much thought at all... though even a little thought is advised, just because you have it to spare, and it's worth it. You might even internalize a little harmonic understanding, and maybe gain some additional melodic sense (or &quot;feel&quot;), with the right approach.<br/>— At least one previous review states that the app is useless for &quot;real musicians.&quot; That is simply and flatly wrong, at least as a general, sweeping statement.<br/>— Though I'm sure the reviewer is at least as intelligent as I am, the statement could not be more ignorant.<br/>— The app is very likely less useful for some particular styles, it may be problematic for a subset of those styles, and it certainly isn't meant to be a primary studio instrument, but there's plenty here for working out progressions, accompanying initial melodic work, building a scratch texture as a backdrop for recording, and more. That its uses and usefulness vary by style and user should not be a surprise to anyone. But...<br/>— A little off topic, and just my 0.02... but if an object makes noise, and if that noise is variable, it is best to approach any comment regarding uselessness of with extreme skepticism, initially. Plenty of of &quot;proofs of concept&quot; in the wild regarding the musicality of any number of unfamiliar doodads, if you're awake, and if you're &quot;musical&quot; ... and we can leave the term &quot;real&quot; elsewhere.<br/>— And in response to the complaint regarding limited voices (sounds), I would like to propose a licensing requirement for the submission of written reviews.<br/>The testing process:<br/>1) Read a short description of a widget<br/> (any kind).<br/>2) Fiddle with the widget a bit.<br/>3) Write some random comments<br/> about that widget.<br/>You pass and are issued a license ONLY IF your comments DO NOT get playground whiny when the widget DOES NOT do things THE DESCRIPTION SAID THE WIDGET WOULD NOT DO. (And if you can't parse that sentence, wait; you still need the training wheels, for now.)<br/>— Y'all can figure it from there.

I love how easy it is to experiment with chord progressions here. The MIDI feature means i can hook it up to any of my synths or samplers, and the arpeggiator is easy to use and fun to customize. I hope the devs keep this app current, because it's a great part of my arsenal (you know, for doing &quot;real musician&quot; stuff).

love the app &amp; use it with Riff Station, which give me the chords from any song &amp; transpose it to what Polychord can handle. <br/>While strumming Polychord, you can accidentally shrink &amp; close it, … so I lock the app down by running it with IPad Guided Access. <br/>Thanks sooo much for a great running app. My wish is to be able to select the individual chords to place on the palette.

This app gives ios a bad name.

Unless I'm missing something pretty major, there's no way this app is worth ten bucks.<br/><br/>Lowering to one star... Midi out for arp and bass don’t send midi off’s... could be so cool. As it is now, it’s broken and seems to be abandoned...

It's a great songwriting tool. Highly recommended. Hope they include other sounds in the future.

Cool app, but doesn't send midi to garage band. Or Thor. Thor works for about one second, then poly chord bombs.<br/><br/>Works with Magellan.

Seems fun and intuitive, but crashed twice within the first ten minutes.